Suspect dies after Lexington police chase

8:55 AM,
Jul. 4, 2013

Written by

R. Darren Price
THE STATE

A Gaston man has died of injuries from a June 30 police chase in Lexington.

Corey C. Register, 27, died Tuesday at Palmetto Health Richland H ospital, according to the Lexington Police Department. Register suffered injuries from crashing his Jeep Cherokee into a tree at Park Road and Brookhill West after a mile-long chase with police.

A town patrol officer tried to stop Register's SUV in the 200 block of Columbia Avenue after he noticed the driver was not wearing a seat belt and was suspected of driving drunk, according to the department. The car slowly turned into the parking lot of a fast-food ...